sullen - Story 143119 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The archery range felt oppressively quiet. The targets stood like indifferent witnesses to his dissatisfaction. David, the most accurate shooter, was told by Coach Miller, *“We need you on the second team, David.”* The news had landed like an arrow in his gut.

He slowly pulled back the bow, the tension in the string mirroring the tension in his own body. The silence amplified his discontent. The other shooters' easy smiles and congratulatory pats on the back seemed hollow. He let the arrow fly, missing the target completely.

Emotion: sullen

Cluster: Sadness / Despair

PC1 (Valence): -1.51 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): -0.22

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion sullen. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 sullen stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the sullen emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the sullen vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`S`	0.404
`😞`	0.282
`’`	0.254
`:(`	0.233
`无法`	0.215

Suppressed:

`de`	-0.539
`!`	-0.276
`la`	-0.263
`🤩`	-0.225
`que`	-0.216